Dry guillotine. Fifteen years among the living dead. Prisoner No. 46635. Illustrations by a fellow prisoner. The text in this volume is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo. With an Introduction by William La Varre.
de BELBENOIT, Rene
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1938. 8vo. 345, [1] pp. 11 sepia-toned plates. Black cloth, gilt lettrng, red ruling, w/ d.j. (vry slght chppng at uppr fore-edge bk cvr, vry slght wear), NF/VG copy from library of H.G. Hills, of former Vice President of Hills Brothers Coffee. First edition, 5th printing of this searing account of a prisoner’s 15 year prison term in the hell of French Guiana at Devil’s Island. The work outlines his 5 escape attempts, the fifth being successful. A scathing description of the French penal colony of the time.
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- Dry guillotine. Fifteen years among the living dead. Prisoner No. 46635. Illustrations by a fellow prisoner. The text in this volume is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo. With an Introduction by William La Varre.
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- BELBENOIT, Rene
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- New York:
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- 1938.
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- French Guiana, Devil’s Island, Penalogy, Prisons, French History, Biography, Belbenoit, Caribbean, South America, criminology, Travel, Memoirs, Autobiography
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